um, doug schmidt and steve scherr who beat tommy norman in this trial liked tommy norman. i wasn't particularly friendly toward tommy norman. i didn't describe his style, but if you could imagine -- remember stanley tucci sort of slithering through the devil wore prada? that was kind of tommy's -- tommy would never say "said" if he could say "aver." he was a pretend white house kind of guy with a widow's peak. schmidt and scherr felt so badly for him that they seriously discussed offering him a partnership in their firm. [laughter] they liked, they liked tommy norman. a lot of people around the halls of justice liked tommy norman and were sorry to see that it had all, that he had messed up big time. it sort of wiped out all the accomplishments of the rest of his life. and he's no longer among us. so may he rest in peace. >> we'd like to remind our listening audience that this is a program with the commonwealth club of california, and we're listening to "double play: how dan white got away with murder and changed san francisco" with reporter and author mike weiss. unfortuna